A California drug dealer, who bought more than a ton of marijuana that he says his girlfriend at
the time flew to Ohio by private jet, cried yesterday as he was sent to prison for 10years and one
month.

"I thought money was the answer to all my problems, but it only brought about my destruction,"
David C. Garrett sobbed in U.S. District Court in Columbus.

His sentencing was the first among the seven defendants in the drug-trafficking operation. It
brought more details to light about the scheme involving Lisette Lee, the Los Angeles woman who
says she's an heiress to the Samsung fortune.

Garrett, 28, of Culver City, Calif., was sentenced yesterday for conspiring to distribute more
than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of marijuana. The operation involved numerous trips from
California to Ohio with suitcases stuffed with marijuana.

Calling himself a "selfish fool," Garrett pledged he would come out of prison "a better man than
I am today."

In court documents filed this week, Garrett laid out how the drug trafficking worked.

He said he was a California marijuana street dealer when he met Lee in early 2009 and the two
began a romance. To keep up with Lee's "extravagant lifestyle," they decided to take large amounts
of marijuana to Ohio, where Garrett said he could distribute it.

Lee provided the money to buy the first shipment and her family's planes to fly it from
California to Ohio each time, the documents said. Garrett provided the marijuana for seven to 10
shipments to Ohio and helped sell it here.

Garrett said his involvement ended in February 2010, when he and Lee broke off their
relationship.

A court document Lee filed yesterday gives a somewhat different scenario. It says Garrett
recruited her as "a face for the operation that would move multiple pieces of luggage without
drawing attention to the shipment." It says Lee's only involvement was arranging the
transportation.

Also yesterday, Hollywood starlet Meili Cady, 25, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to conspiracy
to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.

Her crime carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence. But under her plea agreement, federal
prosecutors said they would not oppose a lesser sentence because of significant help she provided
in the investigation. Lee, Cady and two other defendants were on a private jet that arrived June 14
at Lane Aviation at Port Columbus. They had 13 suitcases filled with marijuana.

That night, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested only Lee and charged her with
drug trafficking. In the months that followed, Cady and others were charged.

Lee, 29, said Cady was her personal assistant. Investigators eventually concluded that the drug
ring had flown tons of marijuana from California to Ohio in 14 trips between November 2009 and June
2010 and that seven people were involved.

Garrett pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy, which carries a mandatory sentence of at least
10 years in prison and a maximum of life.

Lee pleaded guilty in February to the same charge and remains in jail, where she has been since
her arrest. Henry A. Hernandez, 24, the only defendant in the case who had not pleaded guilty,
apparently will do so soon. Government attorneys filed a plea agreement yesterday indicating that
he will plead guilty to the same conspiracy count as Cady.

Samsung, an electronics maker founded and based in South Korea, has denied that Lee is the
granddaughter of Samsung founder Byung-Chul Lee.